(upbeat music) - Those opening credits, Blake Edwards production.

This guy knows how to make the funniest movies I've ever seen.

(piano booming) - It was so exciting.

You could just tell it was gonna be a hit.

(explosion booming) - We sunk a truck.

- You go from "Operation Petticoat," to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" to "The Pink Panther."

It's like he could do no wrong.

- And I remembered watching this huge screen and thinking, what is my dad doing in the back row with Mary Poppins?

(light music) - [Julie Andrews] I was driving, and a very beautiful car came into the meridian, and I looked across, and Blake rolled down his window and said, "You're Julie Andrews?"

And I said, "Yes, I am."

(light music) It was pretty instantaneous.

He was dangerously attractive.

(smooth music) - It's a fascinating pairing.

I remember as a kid finding out they were married.

It's like, what?

How's that possible?

She's from "Sound of Music" and he's this comedy guy.

- [Blake Edwards] She is a remarkable human being.

She really, truly is.

- Blake was working to take Julie out of that mold that everybody had put her in.

She'd really been stuck in Mary Poppins, Maria von Trapp.

(upbeat music) - [Andrews] Collaborating with your spouse is extremely nerve-wracking.

Underlying that incredible charisma, and charm, and talent, he had a very dark side to him.

- Comedy people are an interesting breed.

They have problems with depression.

- Even though he looked so happy, there was a lot of sadness.

- [Edwards] It was just too much.

I couldn't handle Hollywood.

- [Andrews] In a way, he wrote out his demons.

- [Edwards] I said, "That's it, I'm just gonna write, and they'll buy it or they don't."

(ball thudding) - The first thing people think about when they think of him, they think of the "Pink Panther" films, but I actually think of the range.

It's intangible, it's perfect, and it's just.

- Comic genius.

- Controlled insanity.

- My director.

- One of those things like lightning striking.

(chuckling) - Dude knew how to put on a show.

(upbeat music) - That's just movie magic right there.